Re-sparking my LOVE interest.

Recently I took an unexpected road trip to Oklahoma City, which is almost 24 hours away.  During those 24 hours of nothing on the road I passed quite of a lot of my time listening to music.  I found myself stuck on one particular band....Angels and Airwaves. If you know know me, you know I"m pretty fond of the band.  I've had many people ask me before, " why do you like them so much, they are a mediocre band" or "He [Tom Delonge]  ruined Blink-182, they were so much better."

When it comes down to exactly why I'm so addicted to their music, there's no one answer to that.  If I had to narrow it down to a couple things it would be, their sound and their message.  I'll start to elaborating on their sound. Really, AVA sounds like nothing else, their long intros filled with flanger and delay crescendo into big stadium rock filled chorus , mixed with their sometimes intricate, futurist, synth filled, and space age sound.  Tom and David's [Kennedy] Rhythmic and melodic guitar style lends well with Atom's {Willard] High energy fast punk rock drumming style, all awhile Matt's [Watcher] classical style piano and his calm bass line tops off the song.  Listening to them will take you on a roller coaster of different sounds and emotions, you'll be bouncing from high distortion power chord filled punk rock anthems to simple clean almost love ballets to raw sounding emotional story telling and ending with a space age synthetic sounding song.

One of the main draws I have to them is what Tom writes about, his lyrics. His lyrics are full of hope. He'll take you from a feeling of optimism to a feeling of heart break to looking forward to a better day.  I think Tom himself sums it up pretty well exactly what Angels and Airwaves embodies.

"You can do anything you want in life, anything at all. If you have the slightest bit of risk and if you have the slightest bit of ambition, I swear to god, not only can you change the world around yourself, you might just change the world itself.

This isn't about what is cool or not cool, what is punk or not punk. This is about not being an asshole and trying to do something better than yourself.

I hear a lot of shit about rock bands pretending they're fucking angry, rock bands pretending they're fucking rebellious.
I think, i'm gonna be an optimistic, and I think i'm gonna feel fucking good!

Believe in Yourself"

– Tom DeLonge